Gold at near two-month peak as Fed rate-cut hopes lend support
Palladium down more than 2%
U.S. retail sales data due later this week
Traders price in Fed rate cut in Sept
Updates milestone, prices and adds details
By Rahul Paswan
July 15 (Reuters) - Gold prices climbed to a near two-month high on Monday,aided by hopes for interest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve as traders await for more comments from Fed officials to gauge the timing of those cuts.
Spot gold XAU= rose 0.4% to $2,421.25 per ounce as of 2:00 p.m. ET (1800 GMT), hitting its highest level since May 20 when it hit a record high of $2,449.89 per ounce.
U.S. gold futures GCcv1 settled 0.3% higher at $2,428.9.
"The path for both gold and silver prices is going to continue to be sideways to higher and I would not be surprised to see a new record high here in the coming weeks or even sooner," said Jim Wyckoff, senior market analyst at Kitco Metals.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the three inflation readings over the second quarter of this year showed "more progress" was being made on bringing the pace of price increases back to the Fed's target.
According to the CME FedWatch Tool, markets now see a 100%chance of a U.S. rate cut in September. Non-yielding bullion's appeal tends to shine in a low-interest-rate environment.
Meanwhile, long-dated U.S. bond yields rose, as investors weighed whether the assassination attempt on U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump increased his chances of victory. MKTS/GLOB
"Risks are just kind of balanced on each side and I think that (gold is) going to probably trend sideways for that reason," said Everett Millman, chief market analyst with Gainesville Coins.
Focus this week will be on U.S. retail sales, industrial output for June and weekly jobless claims data that could offer more cues on the strength of the world's largest economy.
Eleswhere, spot silver XAG= fell 0.4% to $30.7 per ounce, platinum XPT= was steady at $998 and palladium XPD= dropped 2.1% to $948.70.
Spot gold price in USD per oz https://reut.rs/3W1kLxn
Reporting by Rahul Paswan and Anushree Mukherjee in Bengaluru; Editing by Vijay Kishore and Maju Samuel
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